| Titre | Du rococo au sentimentalisme : les trois premiers recueils poétiques de Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1749/1750-1807) | |
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| Auteur | Rolf Fieguth | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 74, no 4, 2002 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Le sentimentalisme russe, sous la direction de Jean Breuillard Articles |
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| Page | 835-860 | |
| Résumé anglais |
From Rococo to Sentimentalism : The First Three "Lyrical Cycles" by Franciszek Dionizy Knjaźnin (1749/1750-1807)
Franciszek Dionizy Knjaźnin, a virtuoso of versification and verbal paradox, a remarkable translator and adapter of ancient poetry, deserves attention as a master in the arrangement of his poetry books. The study analyses his transition from Rococo to Sentimentalism by comparing the composition of his enormous poetry book Erotica (1779), a 'lyrical cycle' much in the Petrarquist tradition, to the ordering of texts in his poetry collection Amusements and Little Loves and in his 'lyrical cycle' Orpheus' Laments on Eurydice (both in the volume Poems 1783). The author found that both of these sentimentalist poem sequences are more or less derived from rococo Erotica. Amusements are given their sentimentalist turn less by textual modifications than by some important reductions in the overall arrangement of poems. We see a drastic reduction of the collection's size (from 371 poems in 10 books in Erotica to 74 poems in 3 books in Amusements); a reduction of intertextuality and metapoetical autoreferentiality (Sentimentalism prefers not to expose its artistic procedures); and a reduction of the variety of lyrical genres in favour of a clear domination of the idyll. Furthermore, Amusements do no longer constitute a 'lyrical cycle', since the highly complex web of quasi-narrative threads in Erotica has disappeared. Nevertheless, the three books of Amusements show a movement in tonality from slight euphoria to moderate scepticism in eroticis, but also to serious patriotic didacticism whose connection with Sentimentalism will live a long period in Polish literature. Noteworthy in the last part of Amusements are the 'motivic hints' (death motifs) to the directly following Orpheus' Laments. These consist of 24 poems ('laments') and form a fully developed 'lyrical cycle'. They are sentimentalist in their 'simple' quasi- narrative outline, in their pastoral modesty restraining the sublime of the Orpheus-Eurydice theme, and above ail in a most remarkable lyrical 'tonelessness' and 'colourlessness' in expressing the moods of mourning, despair and depression. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2002_num_74_4_6849 |
